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East African Deputy Secretary General to Honor IPCR Graduates

Dr. Cheluget (second from right) and IPCR faculty and students
during a previous visit to Arcadia.

Leigh Griggs and several other students in Arcadia’s
International Peace and Conflict
Resolution master’s program spent
part of this academic year in Arusha, Tanzania, helping to set up the
Nyerere Centre for Peace Research, a joint effort of the East African
Community and Arcadia University. On Thursday, May 17, Dr. Kipyego Cheluget,
Deputy Secretary General of Projects and Programmes for the East African
Community, will attend Arcadia’s Commencement to help honor Griggs
and the other master’s degree recipients.

As Cheluget says thank you to the graduating students, his visit also
sets the stage for a grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony of the
Nyerere Centre for Peace Research planned for July 13 in Arusha with
Arcadia University President Jerry Greiner. The official
opening of the Centre this summer will herald a steady stream of both
graduate and undergraduate students who will have the opportunity to
study abroad in Tanzania. Read more.

Traffic Congestion Expected at Record Commencements

Record numbers of students will be graduating at Arcadia’s two
ceremonies this week: Graduate
Commencement on Thursday, May 17, at 5
p.m. and Undergraduate
Commencement on Friday, May 18, at 10:15 a.m.
Attendees, faculty and staff are reminded that traffic flow in and around
campus will become very congested.

Public Safety staff and Cheltenham Police will be positioned at various
traffic posts
around campus several hours prior to the beginning of each ceremony.
On Thursday, faculty and staff will be permitted to park on campus. On
Friday, all faculty and staff need to park off campus. Remote parking
will be available in the Cheltenham High School parking lot with shuttle
service to and from campus. The shuttle service runs from 5:30 a.m.
through 7 p.m. Between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., the pick up and drop off for
the shuttle will be in front of Taylor Hall.

Forensic Science Students Get Lesson of the Heart

“It’s the last day of class and the students have relaxed
a bit,” writes Arcadia University Forensic Science Adjunct Professor Arthur
Young at the Crime
Lab Project blog. Young oversees the internal internship for Forensic
Science master’s students, their last step before graduating. The
internship, conducted at the Fredric
Rieders Family Renaissance Foundation, is a simulated case where
the students analyze evidence in a real crime lab, write lab reports
several inches thick with details about their analysis and DNA extraction,
and then explain those findings in a court testimony exercise.

On Friday, May 4, writes Young, a forensic biologist at NMS Labs, “The
last case has been solved, and with their last testimony exercise over,
there are no surprises left. No surprises, save one: Television crews
and reporters have arrived to interview the young forensic scientists...”

What the students think has been a simulated case has actually been
the recreation of an actual case that Young helped solve in his role
as a Forensic Biologist at NMS Labs. Rape/murder victim 15-year-old Deanna
Wright-McIntosh was just 15 when she disappeared. It was Christmas Eve
2004 when Young got the DNA results that showed that the burned remains
found in a 55-gallon drum were a match for Wright-McIntosh. He recalled
the heavy emotional burden of being the first to know that not far from
his lab, “there were Christmas presents under a tree that would
never be opened.” Read more.

Walbert Testifies on Campus Safety at House Committee

Vice President for Student Affairs Jan Walbert, testified in her role
as President of NASPA at a U.S. House of Representatives Committee on
Education and Labor hearing, "Best Practices for Making College Campuses
Safe," on Tuesday, May 15. At the hearing in the Rayburn House Office
Building in Washington, D.C., Walbert focused on the following points:

Student affairs professionals are meaningfully engaged in the lives
and well-being of college and university students.

Effective systems exist on most campuses and address a large majority
of situations.

There are documented increases in the number of mental health issues
among students, and these challenges are addressed successfully in
most cases.

Current laws exist to protect and support students’ privacy
as well as to protect the community.

We can always learn more, and we must continue to work on improving
systems.

Arcadia University Landscape Master Plan Receives Honor Award

The landscape master plan re-focuses
the campus visitor’s
attention on the iconic Grey Towers Castle, which is symbolic of
the University’s
academic excellence.

The Arcadia University Landscape Master Plan received the Honor Award
from the Pennsylvania / Delaware Chapter of the American Society of
Landscape Architects (ASLA) at a ceremony on Saturday, May 12, at the
Eden Resort in Lancaster, Pa. The ASLA awards program recognizes excellence
in landscape architecture and dramatizes to the public the value that
landscape architects bring to communities. Simone
Collins Landscape Architecture of Berwyn, Pa., prepared the landscape
master plan.

The 60-plus-acre Arcadia University campus took its original form from
the William Welsh Harrison Estate when the college relocated to Glenside
in the 1920s. Renowned architect Horace Trumbauer designed the estate’s
distinctive architecture, which has been retained and preserved by
Arcadia. These buildings include the magnificent Grey Towers Castle,
constructed in 1893, which is a National Historic Landmark. The Arcadia
University campus is a major green space resource in the community,
and the landscape master plan recommends significant improvements to
strengthen this resource while celebrating Trumbauer’s original
design. Read more.

Business Team Takes Third Overall in International Competition

The Arcadia team displays their award with Professor
William Biggs (left).

An Arcadia University team of four students operating a company they
named "Everest" received a third place trophy for their overall performance
at the 43rd Annual International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition.
The final phase of this business contest, held in San Diego in April
2007, included teams from Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United
Arab Emirates. While the students arrived in San Diego a day early to
see the town, it was all business once the competition started—with
split-second decision-making as they ran their simulated business. The
team consisted of seniors Olivia Amspacher, Jeff
Kelly, Holly Koval and John Krause.

In the International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition (ICBSC),
student teams use a computer simulation model to manage a firm in competition
with the other firms in their industry. “This competition is clearly
international in scope,” says Dr. William Biggs,
Professor of Business Administration. “The teams are divided into
worlds of direct competitors, and this year our direct competitors were
Al Ain Women’s College (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates), Dubai Women’s
College (Dubai, United Arab Emirates), Loyola Marymount University (California),
University of Portland (Oregon), and Okanagan University College (British
Columbia, Canada).”

Faculty, Staff Awards Luncheon, May 22

Faculty and staff members of the Arcadia University community are invited
to a celebration luncheon on Tuesday, May 22, where the winner
of the Martha Washington Award for Distinguished Service will be named.
The luncheon is from noon to 2 p.m. in
the Dining Hall (upper level). Please RSVP to Katie
Kelly, Office of Human Resources, 215-572-2173, by May
15.

The Martha Washington Award nominees are:

Jeff Ewing, Student Affairs

Lorna Stern Laniak, Center for Education Abroad

Michelle Reale, Landman Library

Gwen Taylor, English/Communication/Theatre Arts

Dick Torchia, Art Gallery

Vijay Vasu, Information Technology

Anna Wagner, Undergraduate Studies

The luncheon also honors retiring faculty and staff members.
Read more about luncheon honorees.

Upcoming Events

Let's Go!

Senior Farewell Celebration, May 17

All members of the University community (students, faculty and staff)
are invited to attend the 2007 Senior Farewell Celebration on Thursday,
May 17, from 9 p.m. until midnight in the Castle.

Spring Staff Assembly Meeting, June 6

Staff
Council will host a Spring Staff Assembly meeting on Wednesday, June 6, in the Castle Rose Room from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Hear
campus updates from President Jerry Greiner, Vice President
of Enrollment Management Dana Davies, and fellow Arcadia
staff. For those in attendance, there will be a “Philly breakfast”
provided and a chance to win a gift card to The Cheesecake Factory worth
$100! “With so many reasons to attend, we hope to see you there!”
says Andrew Johnson, Staff Council Chair. Contact him
at johnsona@arcadia.edu
with any questions.

It’s Phillies Time with Arcadia Staff, June 15

Staff
and their families are invited to Citizens Bank Park on Friday, June 15,at 7:05 p.m.to see the Phillies take on the
Detroit Tigers. Tickets are $23 each. Contact Jenn Haring
at haringj@arcadia.edu
or Celina Gonzalez at gonzalezc1@arcadia.edu
as soon as possible to reserve tickets. Payment will be needed by June
1.

CAMPUS HAPPENINGS

Hill Harper Headlines Black Male Development Symposium

Hill Harper and young attendee

Arcadia University and Village Builders Inc. hosted the fourth annual
Black Male Development Symposium on Arcadia’s campus Saturday,
May 12, with CSI: New York actor and author Hill Harper as a
featured speaker. The theme of the symposium was: “A New Vision
Forward...As If Your LIFE Depended Upon It.”

Workshops were held on Reclaiming the Black Male Image, Educate to Elevate,
Family and Relationships, Health, Wellness and Spirituality, and Strategies
and Techniques in Service Delivery to African American Males.

The Black Male
Development Symposium provides an opportunity for youth, adults,
educational institutions, community organizations and individuals to
participate in a one-day symposium designed to address the life-threatening
issues facing black male youth and adults.

Other special speakers included: Mister Mann Frisby, Solomon Jones,
Patrick Oliver, Lacy Clark, Salome Thomas El, Thabiti Boone, Sheron Umi
Smith, and Nasser Jones. The day also included an Author’s Literary
Pavilion, a Health Fair, and college prep and community resources. View
photos from the day.

Pongonis Named Campus Life Member of Year

Award winner Linda Pongonis
with Josh Stern

The Campus Life Staff Member of the Year Award was created to honor
the most outstanding member of the Campus Life Staff for his/her dedication
to the position and to the University community. At an end-of-the-year
brunch on May 9, the 2007 award went to Linda Pongonis,
Senior Resident Assistant. This award is peer-nominated and was presented
by Josh
Stern,
Associate Dean and Director of residence Life.

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